

i live design. whether it’s the web, or paper — i love to wrap my mind around a new project. i believe a website is so much more than a few pretty graphics and a snazzy layout. it's about a user experience that engages your visitors and converts them to life long customers of your brand.
i stand firmly behind all my services, which include: web design, logo & brand identity services, marketing, print, and packaging. take some time to view my portfolio below and if you're interested —
contact me at the bearcave
Client: Moonbeam Illustrations
Profile: MoonbeamIllustrations was one of my first sites I created and I was elated when I was approached for a re-design. I wanted to replicate her use of mixed media in much of her work while keeping a light, storybook feeling. One of my favorite projects, I love working with artists!
Client: FreeTheDream.com
Profile: FreetheDream.com is a blog dedicated to the preservation of the American Dream and the celebration of Individualism. A personal project of mine who's concept touches deeply at home with my entrepreneurial spirit.
Role: Creative Director / Marketing / Writing
Link: FreeTheDream.com
Client: Circuit City
Profile: Working for Circuit City was one of the most rewarding experiences I've had. Although it is incredibly sad that the giant has fallen, my time spent working on circuitcity.com will always be a memory I will cherish. This was a rough site design for the all important Thanksgiving Day / Black Friday / Cyber Monday sales. The top half of the site design had animated snowflakes that fell across the products.
Role: Site Design
Link: Unavailable
Client: Personal
Profile: Ever since I was introduced to the game Diablo, I've been a huge fan of any game that Blizzard has developed. The upcoming Diablo 3 is no exception and I am eagerly awaiting it's release. To help contain my enthusiasm, I played around with a layout for a hypothetical Diablo 3 teaser page. This design contains many images (albeit heavily edited) from the Blizzard site and it's artists, in which I do not claim ownership.
Role: Creative Director
Link: Cow Level
Client: Bearfoot
Profile: This was a personal project I created in an expression of my love for sports nutrition. I wanted to create a product that has an organic nature but didn't fall in to the typical trends of much of the current fitness industry. It was also very important to me to create a meaningful slogan. The brand motto, 'We-ar-able,' instills self-confidence and value in to consumer athletes. To accompany the brand, a line of energy drinks and protein supplements were created to aid in athletic development.
Role: Creative Director / Branding / Packaging
Client: Telfair Art Museums
Profile: The Telfair Museums consists of three museums (Jepson, Telfair, Owens-Thomas House) in Savannah, Ga. They were in need of a re-design that would allow them to maintain their own site. I served as a member of a 3-man programmer team (apart of a larger design team) during the construction of this site in the Content Management System, Joomla. Great care was taken to make the site easy to access and easy to update.
Role: Web Developer / Branding
Link: Telfair
Client: Bearfoot
Profile: An ode to all outdoor sportsman out there, HOSS Sportswear was created to reflect youth and culture in an often highly-traditional market. It was important to break away from other outdoor competitors and present a brand that connected with the younger generation. The O in HOSS is created from the remnants of a shotgun shell, and the remaining letters help tie in that muddy feeling of being outdoors and just living life. Bags, Clothing Tags, and Incentive Gifts were all included.
Role: Creative Director / Branding
Client: Curiously Cinnamon
Profile: A competition piece that was created in a 3-man team where I served as creative director. Curiously Cinnamon is a Nestle brand of cereal consumed in the UK. They were looking for a low-budget marketing campaign to be completed to push a new look for their brand. Our team came up with a strong mass-transit campaign that took advantage of Britain's reliance on their public transportation. This piece was selected for entrance in to the final judging.
Role: Creative Director
Link: n/a
Client: Railroad Services Group
Profile: Railroad Services Group is a railroad company based out of Illinois that needed a strong presence on the web to unify the three companies that they represented. They wanted to bring a very forward-thinking concept to the web that would make them stand out from the competition.
Role: Creative Director
Link: Railroad Services Group
Client: Bearfoot
Profile: This mailer was designed to advocate rights for gun owners. The interesting challenge for this piece was promoting awareness about the dangers at home without taking the common route of showing a gun. It was a fun project and might have been the only 'Guns Rights' poster I have seen before.
Role: Poster Design
Client: Bearfoot
Profile: If there was ever a fighter worth admiring it's Fedor Emelianenko, the soft-spoken ever humble heavyweight champion. While there's no movie in the making for him, I wanted to create one that would reflect his cold, personality that can only be described as Russian. The poster was created in the style of an asian movie poster.
Role: Creative Director / Packaging / Branding
Client: Georgia Coast Design & Construction
Profile: This project was created in a team, in which I served as the Creative Director. The project was supposed to include a site but that never came to fruition. The objective was to create an identity that captured the sophistication of their architecture without losing ties to coastal Georgia that meant so much to them.
Role: Creative Director / Branding
Client: OpenSoul
Profile: OpenSoul is a virtual marketing agency that contacted me about putting together an easy-to-update online presence that would properly showcase the work of their creatives.
Role: Website Design / Development
Link: OpenSoul
Client: MMARising.com
Profile: This site proved an interesting problem. Making a site that was visually appealing while having it easy to update and presenting a large amount of fresh news stories. The site was designed to draw sponsorship to MMA fighters.
Role: Creative Director / Branding
Link: MMARising.com
Client: Various
Profile: A collection of logos that I have created through my projects. Logo sheets always make for good fun, seeing so many contrasting elements together.
Role: Logo / Branding